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xenoterracide

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153 Questions

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284 votes

16 answers

1.2m views

How do I find out what hard disks are in the system?

asked Dec 6, 2010 at 7:58

280 votes

12 answers

419k views

How do I convert an epoch timestamp to a human readable format on the cli?

asked Oct 11, 2010 at 13:46

270 votes

18 answers

283k views

How do you sort du output by size?

asked Dec 9, 2010 at 11:17

255 votes

6 answers

67k views

VISUAL vs. EDITOR – what’s the difference?

asked Dec 15, 2010 at 10:17

255 votes

10 answers

281k views

Getting 256 colors to work in tmux

asked Aug 23, 2010 at 8:30

237 votes

8 answers

319k views

What's the difference between /sbin/nologin and /bin/false

asked Apr 7, 2011 at 20:08

204 votes

5 answers

96k views

$VAR vs ${VAR} and to quote or not to quote

asked Dec 16, 2010 at 13:14

193 votes

3 answers

117k views

In Arch Linux how can I find out which package to install that will contain file X?

asked Jun 12, 2011 at 14:59

121 votes

7 answers

220k views

Grabbing the first [x] characters for a string from a pipe

asked Oct 23, 2010 at 23:07

111 votes

6 answers

65k views

Birth is empty on ext4

asked Oct 8, 2012 at 3:48

103 votes

2 answers

111k views

What is this new /run filesystem?

asked May 28, 2011 at 20:25

96 votes

10 answers

91k views

How do I split a flac with a cue?

asked Mar 28, 2011 at 22:57

94 votes

5 answers

536k views

How can I verify SSL certificates on the command line?

asked Jul 7, 2011 at 15:07

93 votes

15 answers

92k views

Best way to search through shell's history

asked Aug 16, 2010 at 19:43

89 votes

8 answers

44k views

Colors in Man Pages

asked Aug 10, 2010 at 20:39

88 votes

4 answers

23k views

Is there any way to keep a command from being added to your history?

asked Jan 19, 2011 at 3:06

87 votes

11 answers

187k views

How do I count all the files recursively through directories

asked Nov 16, 2010 at 11:02

83 votes

10 answers

129k views

How do you kick a benign user off your system?

asked Aug 17, 2010 at 22:17

77 votes

1 answer

147k views

How do I force remove a package in Arch with pacman?

asked Mar 27, 2011 at 15:13

70 votes

8 answers

116k views

grep and tail -f?

asked Oct 18, 2010 at 2:58

57 votes

12 answers

38k views

make my zsh prompt show mode in vi mode

asked Aug 16, 2010 at 21:45

55 votes

9 answers

39k views

Can I create override dns similar to writing in /etc/hosts without root access

asked Feb 4, 2011 at 8:28

52 votes

3 answers

220k views

How do I get sar to show for the previous day?

asked Jan 5, 2011 at 6:09

50 votes

8 answers

81k views

How do I insert a space every four characters in a long line?

asked Jan 17, 2011 at 14:18

45 votes

2 answers

49k views

What fonts are good for unicode glyphs

asked May 30, 2011 at 0:21

43 votes

5 answers

44k views

How can I get a base64 encoded shaX on the cli?

asked Nov 1, 2010 at 9:18

42 votes

5 answers

29k views

Can I launch a graphical program on another user's desktop as root?

asked Sep 4, 2010 at 21:29

41 votes

7 answers

33k views

How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

asked Aug 12, 2010 at 7:09

39 votes

6 answers

63k views

How do I add newlines between lines printed on the command line?

asked Oct 14, 2010 at 21:00

31 votes

6 answers

21k views

How do I recursively check permissions in reverse?

asked Jan 14, 2011 at 16:39

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